Yes, one Best Male Character Award and one Best Female Character award.

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Max Vaehling

Joined: 31 Mar 2007Posts: 393Location: Bremen, Germany

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

dooky wrote:

But that's assuming it's easier to write characters of your own gender. I'm a man, and I have a comic with an entirely female cast, partly because I'm so bad at creating fully rounded male characters...

Nope, just assuming there's a difference, not assuming anything about what the difference is. BTW, I'm still in favor of just one award. Exactly because the assumed difference is, at the very least, fuzzy._________________Webcomics - Blog - Twitter

As for the Oscar analogy: I think the main reason for having two awards there was to make sure the women get some, too. Especially for the "Best lead" category, because that's a male part in mainstream Hollywood, traditionally._________________Webcomics - Blog - Twitter

I voted for two awards not because I consider male vs. female character writing to be different disciplines, but because I would like this award to be about fun and awesome characters. For example, some people might consider The Terminator to be a really interesting character, even though the movies would never win one of the more serious "best screenplay" type of awards. Some characters are just really cool, and this is a chance to recognize them. So while we're at it, why not two, just for extra fun? Though I admit the point about missing the non-gender or otherly-gender characters is a fair one.

Also, it might be kinda fun, in a presentation kind of way, to give the award to the winning characters, instead of the creators._________________